11 Responses to “ “What Are Some Reasons For Being A Vegan?”

1. Katelyn says:

   October 22, 2009 at 2:57 pm

   http://www.flex.com/~jai/articles/101.ht…
   This websites gives you 101 reasons in various categories
2. Heavy Metal Music and Bands says:

   October 22, 2009 at 2:57 pm

   Hi. Your friend made a great choice! Reasons for going vegan are: Health reasons, animal rights reasons and environmental reasons. It’s very healthy to be a vegan if you do it right. Vegans don’t believe in eating animals or eating or drinking anything that comes from an animal. We were originally supposed to be vegans but when sin came into the world people were given permission to eat meat. Maybe your friend is a quiet vegan and doesn’t want to talk about her views because she might be scared of other people teasing or insulting her about being a vegan. Sadly, some people do that. Hope I helped.
3. naphtali says:

   October 22, 2009 at 2:57 pm

   Some folks are vegan because they feel healthier eating that way. While most of my friends are omnivorous, I feel heavy and sick when I eat animal based proteins. This has been true since childhood – long before I understood the connection between the meat on my plate and the animal on the farm.
   Other folks choose to eat vegan for ethical reasons. They do not believe that humans should exist off the suffering of other animals. While our treatment of animals may have improved since the day of Sinclair Lewis’s book the Jungle, it is still far from humane.
   Other folks choose to eat vegan because it is easier on the environment. Raising animals for food takes more land and is harder on the environment than raising the nutritional equivalent in plants.
   In the end, I recommend that everyone look at what they are eating and consider the health of themself and the planet. Vegan is not right for everyone, but most of us would do well to consider the amount of animal product we consume.
   Hope that helps.
4. spicey_1 says:

   October 22, 2009 at 2:57 pm

   Everyone has personal reasons for their dietary choices. If your friend is a vegan and doesn’t want to tell you why, that’s her personal choice. I would never be vegan because I like the taste of meat. Being vegan also creates a lot of dietary challenges that are easily solved by just eating meat.
   Some are vegan because they are animal activists and feel animals and anything from animals should not be eaten. Some vegans won’t even eat honey. Many refuse to drink milk or eat cheese too…so that causes various dietary issues. I would not go there but respect those who do.
5. ☮Jen D☮ says:

   October 22, 2009 at 2:57 pm

   There are two main reasons for veganism: Health and ethics.
   Dairy cows are injected with hormones and antibiotics, and their food is laced with pesticides. Residue from the hormones, antibiotics and pesticides are found in milk. These have been linked to cancer and compromised immune systems.
   Cows have to be impregnated to give milk, just like people. If the resulting calf is male, it is sold for veal. I’m sure you know what a pleasant future awaits them.
   Dairy cows are “pumped out” after an average of four years, and are then slaughtered for meat.
   A problem with all egg production, even free-range, is the disposal of unwanted male chicks. Because male chicks don’t lay eggs and do not grow fast enough to be raised for meat, they are deemed a financial liability, except for the few used as rooster studs. Nine out of ten male chicks are considered virtually useless and will be killed by the cheapest means available, including suffocation and being ground up alive.
6. Jessie says:

   October 22, 2009 at 2:57 pm

   There are usually 2 main reason to go Vegan.
   1) Health wise. I know a few people who were 50-70 pounds overweight, then they went Vegan and they dropped it quickly but Healthily. This is because when your Vegan your eliminating almost all of the fatty foods from your diet.
   2)Some people find the Meat/Milk/Egg industry very cruel. This is why I went Vegan. If you have watched Earthling you will know.
   And to why your friend does not ant to tell you, she might not want to talk about some of the upsetting images that she has seen (If she is Vegan for 2). I have had nightmares about what I saw, and I only discuss it with people when they wont stop asking. I am very proud to be Vegan.
7. spam email says:

   October 22, 2009 at 2:57 pm

   I am not vegan, but I think it is probably the only justifiably ethical position.
   Firstly, eating animals inevitably involves a number of things, which different people put different weight on.
   1. Producing animal protein demands much more land than producing vegetable-based protein (legumes, nuts, etc), kg to kg of usable protein. In a world with considerable pressure on food supply, it seems ethical to use the minimum land to meet one’s nutritional needs.
   2. All forms of animal husbandry (including organic and free-range) involve levels of pain and suffering to animals. The least suffering is of those who are allowed to live a relatively natural life and are killed in situ. The bulk of meat production involves intensive rearing, transport often on several occasions and certainly lastly to an abattoir where they smell the fear and blood of previous and ongoing killings.
   3. The production of animals in the richer parts of the world involves imports of crops, particularly soya, which are often grown on land which has been brought into production through the clearance of virgin forest.
   Secondly, there are matters of health. These are varied and some are debatable, but include the use of toxic pesticides and medication in non-organic animal husbandry, with the possibility of residues being in the final product (whatever the guidelines say); the stress hormones produced in the slaughter of animals may provoke stress reactions in humans when they eat the meat; some suggest that our digestive systems don’t cope well with the very slow process of digesting meat, and it is held by some that people are less likely to develop cancer if their digestive systems have rapid transit.
   Wild-caught fish certainly suffers considerable ‘something’ – we don’t know enough to know if it’s fear and pain, given how different fish nervous systems are from that of mammals – when caught and killed. Farmed fish suffer levels of overcrowding and medication and pesticide toxicity, as for farmed meat.
   Vegetarians are willing to consume the products of animals – eggs, milk and milk products such as cheese and yogurt, and honey. Vegans would argue (correctly) that all milk products are inevitably bound up with the meat industry – calves or lambs or kids must be born in order for milk to be produced, and the young male animals and many females will go into meat production. Egg production, even from free-range flocks, involves a life very different from wild fowl, which is seen by some as entailing suffering. And stealing honey from bees is seen by vegans as unacceptable exploitation causing a particular type of suffering to a bee colony.
   There are also many religious traditions in which the notion of eating only that which presents itself (nuts and fruit falling from trees etc) is seen as having a closer connection to real spiritual wholeness.
8. janette p says:

   October 22, 2009 at 2:57 pm

   Idk, when you see how the animals are being treated it’s disgusting.
   I’m a vegetarian, I don’t eat animals.
   but it’s pretty sick.
9. Emily Herrera says:

   October 22, 2009 at 2:57 pm

   Watch the documentary ‘Earthlings’ online. It tells you all the reasons you should go vegan.
10. Frances says:

    October 22, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    Don’t believe in killing animals?
    Believe in health benefits?
11. SmyD says:

    October 22, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    there isnt one, meat taste good.
    so does my d